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You like that; you like to have the election of your magistrates turned into closet-work, and no man to use the rights of a citizen unless he is a Medicean.

From that moment disaster dogged the footsteps of the French in Italy, and before winter they had been driven completely out of the peninsula; the succession of the Medicean Pope, Leo X., to Julius II., seemed to promise the continuance of a policy hostile to France in Italy.

Leo X, the great Medicean pope, was elected in 1513, he who ordered the great Raphael set of the Acts of the Apostles, but it was before the establishment of important looms in Italy, so to Flanders and Van Aelst are due the glory of first producing this series which afterward was repeated many times, in the great looms of Europe.

Citizen Fesch created Cardinal Fesch Arts and industry Exhibition in the Louvre Aspect of Paris in 1802 The Medicean Venus and the Velletrian Pallas Signs of general prosperity Rise of the funds Irresponsible Ministers The Bourbons The military Government Annoying familiarity of Lannes Plan laid for his disgrace Indignation of Lannes His embassy to Portugal The delayed despatch Bonaparte's rage I resign my situation Duroc I breakfast with Bonaparte Duroc's intercession Temporary reconciliation.

Common action seemed impossible. The Medicean party, or Palleschi, were either extreme in their devotion to the ruling house, and desirous of establishing a tyranny; or else they were moderate and anxious to retain the Medici as the chiefs of a dominant oligarchy.

He used these men as catspaws, rarely putting himself forward or allowing his own name to appear, but pulling the wires of government in privacy by means of intermediate agents. The Medicean party was called at first Puccini from a certain Puccio, whose name was better known in caucus or committee than that of his real master.

She had pointed out her favourite work, and he asked her if it was about Correggio she wished to talk with him. "No," said Henrietta, "it's about something less harmonious!" They had the small, brilliant room, a splendid cabinet of treasures, to themselves; there was only a custode hovering about the Medicean Venus. "I want you to do me a favour," Miss Stackpole went on.

In the first twenty years of the Medicean rule, seventy families had to pay 4,875,000 golden florins of extraordinary imposts, fixed by arbitrary assessment. The more patriotic members of his party looked with dread and loathing on this system of corruption and exclusion.

From a Ricordo dated October 19, 1524, we learn in fact that he then drew his full pay for eight months. Since Michelangelo was now engaged upon the Medicean tombs at S. Lorenzo, it will be well to give some account of the several plans he made before deciding on the final scheme, which he partially executed.

It was Clara de Haldimar. Presently the vacant space at the same window was filled by another form, but of less girlish appearance one that embraced all the full rich contour of the Medicean Venus, and a lazy languor in its movements that harmonised with the speaking outlines of the form, and without which the beauty of the whole would have been at variance and imperfect.